The best guide for getting up to speed with Android Development that I've come across has to be the Getting Started Training Guide from the Android Developers website. There has to be better and low and behold I found this and this, i.e. How to Program for Android and Android Bootcamp Series 2012 Video Tutorial.
For beginners, the ADT (Android Developer Tools) Bundle is recommended for quickly starting Android development.
If you don't already have the JDK installed on your system you'd need to install it. For Ubuntu users, you can follow the instructions here.
Essentially:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
For instructions about setting up your Android SDK for the first time, read Setting Up the ADT Bundle.
To access Android SDK tools from the command line, add this to your .bashrc
.
# Android SDK
export ANDROID_HOME=path/to/sdk
export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$PATH
Next step: Follow along with the provided training material.
- Go to the
Settings
menu and scroll down toAbout phone
. Tap it. - Scroll down to the bottom again where you see build number.
- Tap it 7 times and the
Developer Options
will appear on theSettings
menu.
See How to add Git Source Control to your existing Android Eclipse Project.
Note: Follow the instructions given but don't add the This was already included in the video.bin
and gen
directories to the repository. First remove them from the index if you added them. To do this right click on each one in turn and select Team > Untrack
. Then add them to the .gitignore
file. To do this right click on each one in turn and select Team > Ignore
.
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